The 2010 Advance Your Career Collection

The 2010 Advance Your Career Collection
Item #: PKSAYC10

In an era of financial turmoil, no job is completely safe from the chopping block. To prevent being a victim of budget cuts and downsizing, you need to stand out and deliver results. Soundview’s Personal Survival Skills Collection contains 15 summaries that may prove vital to keeping you where you belong, in your job. This collection teaches you how to separate yourself from the pack with essential business skills such as communication, networking, negotiation, and more.

This collection includes summaries of:

  • Talent Is Never Enough by John Maxwell
  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
  • Who's Got Your Back by Keith Ferrazzi
  • And 12 other top summaries (see the full list below)
  • The Online Edition includes summaries in up to 8 digital formats, including PDF, MP3, and multiple formats for smartphones and e-book readers. This edition is available in your Online Library immediately after purchase.
  • The Print Edition is shipped in a FREE Soundview Binder.
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 PKSAYC10E $60.00  
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 PKSAYC09 $75.00  

Products in this Collection

  • Image of The Next Level

    The Next Level

    By Scott Eblin
    Item #: 31BS12
    What separates those who make it after a promotion to the executive level from those who don’t? Drawing on more than twenty years of experience working with new and seasoned corporate leaders, Scott Eblin has identified the key behaviors and beliefs that successful executives pick up and let go of. For every rising executive, Eblin’s practical coaching – interwoven with frank mentoring advice from top executives – is invaluable in achieving success at the next level.
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    Who's Got Your Back

    By Keith Ferrazzi
    Item #: 3126
    Keith Ferrazzi, the internationally renowned thought leader, consultant, and bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, shows us that becoming a winner in any field of endeavor requires a trusted team of advisors who can offer guidance and help to hold us accountable to achieving our goals. Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman.” The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships.”
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    Be A Shortcut

    By Scott Halford
    Item #: 3115
    Shortcuts are individuals and companies that function like lifelines to the people and organizations that most depend on them. They are available when needed, they humbly perform tasks without complaint, they are masters of their own specific skill, and they always present a positive attitude. Great Shortcuts are able to make time for things about which they are passionate. They use that same efficiency and passion in the workplace, making other people's jobs easier, creating a better experience
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    Crucial Conversations

    By Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan, Kerry Patterson
    Item #: 31BS06
    If you feel stuck — in a relationship, in your career, at home — chances are a crucial conversation is keeping you there. This New York Times bestseller will help you handle crucial conversations — conversations that occur when the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions vary. With crucial conversations skills, you'll be able to: prepare for high-stakes situations with a proven technique; transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue; make it safe to talk about almost anyth
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  • Image of The Art of Woo

    The Art of Woo

    By G Richard Shell, Mario Moussa
    Item #: 3005
    According to Shell and Moussa, “Woo” is the ability to win people over to your ideas without coercion, using relationship-based emotionally intelligent persuasion. It’s the secret of success with colleagues, clients and customers. The Art of Woo shows readers how this ability can strengthen their persuasion skills in every aspect of their lives by using the four-step Woo process — a repeatable strategy that translates ideas into reality.
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    Influencer

    By David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
    Item #: 3001
    From the authors that brought you Crucial Confrontations comes their thought-provoking look at how individuals –– no matter who they are –– can become the type of influencers that are bringing about change in the world. Influencer takes readers on a journey across the globe, showing them how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible.
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  • Image of The Age of Speed

    The Age of Speed

    By Vince Poscente
    Item #: 2925
    In a time starved era, you need to stop listening to everyone who tells you to slow down, and begin paying attention to authors like Poscente who give you the necessary tools to get ahead of the rush once and for all. The author illustrates why harnessing the power of speed is the ultimate solution for those seeking less stress, less busyness and more balance, while providing the reader with case studies gleaned from successful companies such as Geico, Netflix and Nintendo.
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  • Image of The 29% Solution

    The 29% Solution

    By Michelle Donovan, Ivan Misner
    Item #: 3103
    It is true that there are some people who are better connected than others. That means that “connecting” is a skill that can be acquired. This book will help you develop your networking skills, increase your connections, and become part of the roughly 29 percent of people who are, in fact, separated from the rest of the world by just six degrees.
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    Talent is Never Enough

    By John Maxwell
    Item #: 2915
    Maxwell, a leadership expert, asserts that talent is often misunderstood and overrated. To combat this, he suggests that people build their strengths and become a “Talent-plus person.”
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    Words that Work

    By Frank Luntz
    Item #: 2911
    To effectively obtain the power of communication, you must learn that it’s not always what you say, but how you say it. Luntz offers sound advice on how to tactically use words and phrases to get what you want in life.
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  • Image of Mastering Business Negotiation

    Mastering Business Negotiation

    By Roy Lewicki, Alexander Hiam
    Item #: 2907
    A valuable resource — grounded in solid research — for any leader or manager who needs practical strategies when conducting business negotiations. Lewicki and Hiam assert that the basic skills and techniques of what they call “the master negotiator” are essential for resolving conflicts, handling difficult conversations, protecting oneself against a competitor and managing good business deals.
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  • Image of Never Eat Alone

    Never Eat Alone

    By Keith Ferrazzi
    Item #: 2812
    In Never Eat Alone, marketing and sales consultant Keith Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps — and inner mind-set — he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends and associates on his Rolodex, and shows readers how to connect with the people they want to know.
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  • Image of Nobodies to Somebodies

    Nobodies to Somebodies

    By Peter Han
    Item #: 2810
    Nobodies to Somebodies explores how many successful people found their true callings in a wide range of fields, and went from Nobodies to Somebodies. Based on interviews with 100 highly accomplished leaders — actors, CEOs, senators, scientists and others — this summary describes the early paths they traveled, the hard choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way. Describing many extremely diverse career paths, it explores common themes and lessons that can help anyone e
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  • Image of The Power Presenter

    The Power Presenter

    By Jerry Weissman
    Item #: 3118
    Jerry Weissman is the presentations coach to Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and many of America's top executives, including founding Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle, Intuit founder Scott Cook, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and many others. Now America's top coach reveals the same powerful strategies he teaches to CEOs in expensive private sessions. Learn why your body language and voice are more important than your words, how to present with poise and confidence naturally, and how to connect with any a
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  • Image of Off the Cuff

    Off the Cuff

    By Anne Cooper Ready
    Item #: 2622
    To help readers build up their confidence when asked to just “say a few words,” writer and communications coach Anne Cooper Ready offers them a useful combination of encouragement and preparation to face impromptu speaking in Off the Cuff. In an easy-to-reference guidebook that helps readers put words together that motivate, direct, entertain, and get a point across, Ready teaches both the basic and advanced skills that are needed to solve communication challenges ranging from apologies
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